Savage Ranger

[TheWhiteRaven]

So I'm building a ranger for a game my buddy is going to be starting. But the concept is a savage environment (at least for where the PC's are starting). Less education, more primal and survival of the fittest. No cities, no towns, just tribes and villages in a massive jungle.

I'm going with a Ranger that if you were to take one look at her you would think "Barbarian". She has a greatsword and uses thrown weapons, Strength based instead of Dex, Switch Hitter concept. Effectively I want her to be the type where combat starts up, she lobs a few axes/javelins and then wades in with her greatsword, but is still ready to toss out more weps if the need arises.

My stumbling block is feats, and when to get what. In the Advanced Players Guide there was an option for Rangers to take two handed weapon as their Combat Style, and it gave:

2nd Level - Cleave, Power Attack, Pushing Assault, and Shield of Swings
6th Level - Furious Focus, Great Cleave
10th Level - Dreadful Carnage Improved Sunder

And then I found thrown weapons on http://www.pathfinderdb.com/

2nd Level - Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Quick Draw, Rapid Shot
6th Level - Deadly Aim, Throw Anything
10th Level - Penetrating Strike, Shot on the Run

Any recommendations as to which Combat Style I should take and which I should focus on with Regular feats (gonna be human btw, so extra feat at the start)

[Mahorfeus]

Firstly, make sure that your GM is okay with letting you use the Thrown Weapon style. It looks like a great idea, but it is fan-created content, meaning that it isn't in the Core.

If he does allow it, then I'd definitely recommend it. Quick Draw is a must if you want to throw multiple weapons with iterative BAB, and the feats look like they could work rather well.

[Riku Riekkinen]

I would do Archery style ranger. You get almost same feats as the Thrown weapons style. The Thrown weapons style has Penetrating Strike witch is hard to get, while Archery style has Improved Precise Shot witch is also very hard to get (especially as you should be Str based) and useful with thrown weapons also. Later you can take Manyshot and switch to using bow (as the system doesn't really support throwing... hard to enchant many thrown weapons).